Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Fleischer and Scenarist Silliphant are clearly interested in pulling off a neat surprise. What they sacrifice for the sake of a dramatic punch is any adequate depth or understanding of the loneliness, aimlessness and deadend desperation that might drive such a man as Kilvinsky, portrayed as a good cop and a decent human being. Like The New Centurions itself, the scene is efficient, proficient, even exciting, but so glib it finally becomes false...
...grow up decent, our children need new clothing to present themself in school in proper neat!! The sun have to shine for our children too. Amen...
Frequently when Black English sounds ungrammatical to white ears, it is merely conforming to its own rules. Thus, in the demonstrator's placard, the pronoun themself leaves off the standard English -ves ending because them already establishes plurality. Since Black English rarely uses suffixes, neat means the same as the Standard English noun neatness. Black English also does not differentiate between genders of pronouns, so it is perfectly correct for a speaker to say, "He a nice little girl." In unraveling these rules, however, linguists encounter a problem-almost nobody speaks "pure" Black English. Ghetto blacks, hearing their speech...
Stretching back in his neat office high above sun-sheened Honolulu Harbor, Henry Alexander Walker Jr., president of Amfac, Inc., a widely diversified service company, makes it clear that he and his brazen "no" men indeed have something special. As acquisitive as boys at a Good Humor truck, they have built the biggest and fastest growing Hawaii-based company. Amfac reaches into retailing, financing, farming and hotels, and is spreading into countries spanning almost half the globe. Last week Amfac expanded again, this time right into the populous East Coast. For $11 million in stock, the firm bought Baltimore...
...landscape shot, whether bleak or beautiful, instills respect for an eye so fine that it can turn the view of a train rushing through the industrial wastes of Tokyo into a sight as pleasing as a misty seaside mountainscape. Ozu has often been criticized for sets that are too neat, tidy and unnatural, but his love for the smallest details reveal the perceptions of a superb visual artist...